Brandon Cronenberg Dives Into the Infinity Pool
With his latest release Infinity Pool Brandon Cronenberg cements his place in that pantheon of cinematic extremism that questions what it is to be human and what humanity is capable of. Nadine Whitney…
Nadine Whitney
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review - James Gunn Gives a Heroes Send Off to the Guardians While Pleasing the Case for All Creatures Great and Small
This review contains mild spoilers. It’s been a long and winding road to come to the end of the story of James Gunn’s rag-tag group of miscreants turned heroes. Audiences will no doubt not need a rec…
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Imprint Bluray Review - A Deeply Underrated Film Released On a Must Own Disc
Mike Hodges only made nine features yet is revered as an essential British filmmaker. Although he dabbled in other genres (for example pulp sci-fi with Flash Gordon, horror in his uncredited Omen II,…
The Inspection Review – Jeremy Pope Shines in Elegance Bratton’s Boot Camp Drama
Queer filmmaker Elegance Bratton utilises biographical elements in his film The Inspection. Where the line between fact and fiction blurs is something Bratton mostly leaves up to the audience; but wha…
Cairo Conspiracy (Walad min al-Janna) Review -Strips Away at Faith and Politics in Contemporary Egypt
Egypt’s recent history is one of revolution, counter-revolution, and state and religious oppression. Censorship means that films about contemporary Egypt are never to be negative of critical of the cu…
The Sydney Film Festival Celebrates Jane Campion This Season
There are few directors as essential to the Australasian region as Jane Campion. Perhaps best known for The Piano and The Power of the Dog, for which she has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awa…
Beau is Afraid Review - ...And You Should Be Too
There is no doubting that the titular Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is most certainly afraid in Ari Aster’s dark absurdist comedy Beau is Afraid. Beau has every reason to be afraid in Aster’s mashup of The B…
Mafia Mamma Review – The Drought of Good Catherine Hardwicke Films Continues
Catherine Hardwicke’s career as a director is hard to pin down. Her brilliant first film Thirteen (2003) co-written by Nikki Reed was a blistering investigation into disenfranchised teenagers. Her fol…
A Good Person Review - Zach Braff Delivers an Uneven Melodrama About Grief, Addiction, and Redemption
In 2004 Zach Braff pivoted from acting into writing and directing with his debut feature Garden State. The film utilised the best of Braff’s skills as an actor and won an Independent Spirit Award in 2…
November (Novembre) Review - A Propulsive Manhunt Thriller About the 2015 Paris Attacks
The world was shocked by the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. Director Cédric Jimenez’s fictionalised procedural November concentrates on the vast manhunt undertaken by the French security…
The Giants Review – A Rallying Call for the Environment and the World We Live In
“Can you imagine Australia without Bob Brown?” says Christine Milne in the biographical/ecological documentary The Giants by co-directors Rachel Antony and Laurence Billiet. A young doctor moved to Ta…
The Survival of Kindness Review - An Unsubtle Film About the Brutality of Humanity
When Margaret Atwood wrote her feminist genre fable ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in the mid 1980s she was using precedent that would become prescience. It is the paradigm of persistent cruelty in culture tha…